by AfriForum | Jun 28, 2020 | Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum has sued the Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi, for defamation. This follows after Lesufi falsely accused AfriForum on 24 November 2019 that this organisation was trying, inter alia, to “assassinate” him. AfriForum...
by AfriForum | Jun 26, 2020 | Community Affairs Media statements, Environmental affairs Media statements, Media statements, Investigation and trauma unit Media statements
The COVID-19 task team, established by the civil rights organisation AfriForum and the family farming network Saai, today delivered food and cooking essentials to families in need in Sonop in North West. The task team packed 300 boxes of food and other basic cooking...
by AfriForum | Jun 26, 2020 | Environmental affairs Media statements, Media statements
AfriForum audited 135 landfill sites nationwide this year as part of its national project to measure the standard of landfill sites in South Africa. Only one of the eight landfill sites that were audited in KwaZulu-Natal adhered to national standards. In terms of...
by AfriForum | Jun 25, 2020 | Safety Media statements, Media statements
The civil rights organisation AfriForum has come to the assistance of the Elandsfontein community, south of Johannesburg, to help remove over 500 land grabbers who had started illegally appropriating pieces of land, marking out hundreds of pieces of land and erecting...
by AfriForum | Jun 25, 2020 | Education and leadership projects Media statements, Media statements
The civil rights watchdog AfriForum has been inundated with complaints from parents from early this morning, shortly after Gauteng’s online application process for prospective Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners opened. Parents could not register on the system to apply at...
by AfriForum | Jun 25, 2020 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
AfriForum announced a comprehensive campaign today against the alleged power abuses and misbehaviour by certain members of the Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD). The civil rights organisation is currently supporting two victims of alleged power abuse by the TMPD....
